april/may 2012 Archives

21/06/2016

Delft’s Workshop: Re-fitting a Pickup to an old Arch-top

My friend Nick has a very nice old Gibson arch-top guitar. Not one of the plywood versions – it's a fully acoustic instrument ...

09/05/2012

As it happens my first amp was a Peavey keyboard amp. We used to plug both bass and guitars with Boss Overdrives and Metalzones ...

Last time NZ Musician featured Fleur Jack she was diarising her low budget, quickfire 2011 tour around North America. After ...

Winner of the 1998 NZ Young Composers Award, Ewan Clark began his compositional study at the University of Otago before moving ...

In recent years James Duncan has made strong contributions to both the live sets and albums of two of the country’s pre-eminent ...

2012 marks a major milestone in the career of the Warratahs, a band that has been at the forefront of homegrown roots/country ...

The minor pentatonic scale is a favourite scale for rock guitarists to get ideas for soloing, with the Blues scale being ...

And the Oscar goes to… our Bret McKenzie! The boys from Flight of the Conchords are used to receiving high accolades, and ...

With the late February release of ‘Field Of Vision’ keyboardist Kevin Field now has three albums to his name – as well ...